Joycelyn Gyan
Winneba,Ghana
Summary
Dedicated professional with extensive expertise in mentoring and child protection practices. Demonstrates strong skills in behavioural management, resilience building, and substance abuse awareness. Proficient in event planning and proposal development, with a solid foundation in health and safety regulations. Adept at networking and familiar with educational programmes, ensuring effective child safeguarding. Committed to fostering positive role modelling and interpersonal sensitivity, supported by first aid certification and comprehensive knowledge of child development.
Overview
6
6
Languages
4
4
years of post-secondary education
20
20
years of professional experience
Work history
Cluster Youth Coordinator
Apostolic Good shepherd Child &Youth Dev't Centre
Breman Asikuma, Ghana
07.2023 - 08.2026
- Navigated challenging situations with tact and diplomacy to ensure smooth running of programmes.
- Supervised and mentored volunteers, enhancing their experience and skill set.
- Fostered a positive environment by implementing inclusive activities.
- Coordinated various events to foster camaraderie amongst the youth participants and the alumni network
- Provided the young persons with career development trainings to set them on a path towards a sustainable development
- Developed workshop content to enhance young people's life skills.
- Implemented proactive strategies to improve youth participation within the organisation.
- Facilitated workshops focusing on health, education and wellbeing; received positive feedback from attendees.
- Advocated for youth issues at organisational meetings, ensuring their voices were heard.
- Collaborated with teachers to support academic progress of participants; noticed an improvement in grades.
- Managed youth programmes for better engagement and personal development.
- Evaluated performance against goals regularly; made necessary adjustments for success.
- Engaged with community stakeholders for partnerships in youth initiatives.
- Liaised with parents or guardians regularly, maintaining open lines of communication about the programme's progress and impact on youths' lives.
- Delivered comprehensive reports on programme progress, ensuring transparency and accountability.
Child Survival program Implementer
Sankor Baptist Church in Partnership with CIGH
Winneba, Ghana
04.2013 - 04.2023
- Delivered child survival program support to Sankor Baptist Church and Compassion Ghana implementer teams.
- Delivered interventions covering growth monitoring, oral rehydration, exclusive breastfeeding, immunisation.
- Maintained play-area cleanliness and hygiene to reduce infection risk for children.
- Created safe, stimulating learning by observing children’s behaviour and planning age-appropriate activities.
- Drove antenatal and postnatal attendance for pregnant mothers to support safe delivery.
- Presented Jesus Christ as Saviour of mankind to caregivers and children under 5.
Service personnel
Vocational Training and Rehabilitation Institute at Biriwa
Biriwa
01.2011 - 01.2013
- Served vocational training and rehabilitation institute as administration support staff under Samuel Kwashie Amegbor.
- Stayed retained after national service to assist daily administrative work.
- Showed respect, friendliness, and willingness to help wherever tasks required support.
- Improved efficiency and productivity by learning new administrative and office skills.
- Created documents and ensured clear communication using Microsoft Word and other tools.
- Organised client meetings, prepared agendas, and recorded detailed meeting minutes.
- Completed bookkeeping duties, including invoicing and expense tracking for records.
- Handled sensitive information discreetly to maintain high confidentiality standards always.
- Interacted professionally with clients to deliver excellent service consistently.
- Reviewed staff documents for proofreading, correcting formatting, and verifying facts.
- Collected information, built charts, and produced reports for staff and students.
Field practice
Department of Social Welfare
Cape Coast Metropolis, Ghana
01.2010 - 03.2010
- Improved client outcomes by supporting core social work programmes at Department of Social Welfare, Cape Coast Metro.
Strengthened youth and family case handling through probation officer duties in courts.
Enhanced patient support by providing medical social work across hospital settings.
Boosted safeguarding and rehabilitation routines by managing institute and remand home operations.
Raised service consistency by coordinating additional social work responsibilities across locations. - Carried out day-to-day duties accurately and efficiently.
- Quickly learned and applied new skills to daily tasks, improving efficiency and productivity.
- Demonstrated respect, friendliness and willingness to help wherever needed.
- Consistently arrived at work on time and ready to start immediately.
- Offered friendly, efficient customer service and handled challenging situations with ease.
- Increased customer satisfaction by resolving issues.
- Displayed energy and enthusiasm in fast-paced environment.
- Delivered exceptional customer service by proactively listening to concerns and answering questions.
Voluntary teacher
Compassion
Agona Nsaba
01.2008 - 01.2009
- Volunteered as teacher at Compassion, guiding younger children through developmental areas daily.
- Delivered learning across cognitive, socio-emotional, physical, and spiritual development domains.
- Attended staff training sessions to apply updated teaching best practices effectively.
- Gave one-to-one support to students struggling with complex topics.
- Supported pupils with special needs in all classroom activities confidently.
- Maintained a safe, inclusive classroom atmosphere, promoting respect among students daily.
- Used innovative teaching techniques to strengthen students’ understanding throughout lessons.
- Collaborated with fellow teachers on curriculum planning for full subject coverage.
- Prepared engaging lesson plans to build enthusiasm for learning.
- Introduced new teaching methods to improve learning outcomes continuously.
Classroom Instructor
Greenfield Junior High school
01.2007 - 01.2009
- Delivered tutorials in social studies and Fante at Greenfield Junior High School.
- Supervised girls’ forum with guidance, counselling, and academic monitoring.
- Created lesson plans linking current events to social studies topics.
- Used innovative teaching techniques to improve learning experiences.
- Ran parent-teacher conferences to share student progress.
- Coached underperforming students to raise grades and subject interest.
- Adjusted teaching methods for diverse learning needs and abilities.
- Managed classroom behaviour to keep learning respectful and inclusive.
- Collaborated with colleagues on curriculum planning and professional workshops.
- Prepared and presented student reports with detailed feedback at conferences.
Education
Diploma - Social Work
School of social work
Ghana 01.2009 - 12.2012
Bachelor of Business Administration - Business Administration
University of the People
01.2026 -
Medical Counter Assistant - Pharmacy
Macandy College of Health
Ghana 01.2026 -
Trainers of Entrepreneurs - Economics
ILO SIYB
Ghana 07.2026 -
Skills
- Mentoring expertise
- Basic counselling techniques
- Child protection practices
- Networking capabilities
- Resilience building
- Substance abuse awareness
- Event planning experience
- Proficiency in ms office
- Familiarity with educational programmes
- Child safeguarding training
- Behavioural Management
- Health and Safety regulations
- Proposal development
- First Aid certification
- Child development knowledge
- Bible studies
- Positive role modelling
- Interpersonal sensitivity
Languages
Language: English/Twi
Nationality: Ghanaian
Religion: Christian
Marital Status: Married
Date of Birth: 19th April, 1988
Children: 1
Affiliations
- Reading, listening and writing
Reference Persons
- Bismark Alex, Coufie, abcoufie806@gmail.com, 0202642536, Sankor Baptist CDC, Winneba C/R
- Enock Kyei Baffour, Partnership Facilitator of Compassion GH, 0501325003, Compassion Int. Gh
- Dr. George Asiamah Jnr, Medical Director of C4C Specialist Hospital, geeasiamahjnr@gmail.com, 0542973040
ACHIEVEMENTS AND TRAININGS ACQUIRED
- Best student award in Child labour, Social policy and Administration and Sociology
- Income Generating Skill training and proposal writing on 14th March, 2014.
- Training on single parenting and questionnaire development on 27th January,2014.
- Child Protection training on 15th April, 2014 to date
- Dynamic team building training on 28th April, 2014.
- Project management training on 24th September,2014.
- I.C.T Skill in Microsoft office, word excel and power point.
- Counselling training phase 1and 11 under Compassion International
PERSONAL PROFILE
- Self-starter who takes initiative and capable of working independently.
- Aware of time pressure and good at meeting deadlines.
- I am motivational, presentable and an experience team work.
- A born Christian who is a model in word, and in deed, in lifestyle and demonstrate involvement in Christian ministry.
- Always willing to undergo improvement.
- Good human relations.
- Ability to design a stimulating environment for children amidst an adult using setting using locally available resources.
Timeline
Trainers of Entrepreneurs - Economics
ILO SIYB
07.2026 -
Bachelor of Business Administration - Business Administration
University of the People
01.2026 -
Medical Counter Assistant - Pharmacy
Macandy College of Health
01.2026 -
Cluster Youth Coordinator
Apostolic Good shepherd Child &Youth Dev't Centre
07.2023 - 08.2026
Child Survival program Implementer
Sankor Baptist Church in Partnership with CIGH
04.2013 - 04.2023
Service personnel
Vocational Training and Rehabilitation Institute at Biriwa
01.2011 - 01.2013
Field practice
Department of Social Welfare
01.2010 - 03.2010
Diploma - Social Work
School of social work
01.2009 - 12.2012
Voluntary teacher
Compassion
01.2008 - 01.2009
Classroom Instructor
Greenfield Junior High school
01.2007 - 01.2009